Slow Dancing With My Tesoro Cibola :tesoro::usaflag:

[tabman]

Slowing down and taking my time with my Cibola sure is paying off. She finding lots of hidden treasure for me. I went back to that small area that I've been detecting for the last several days to see if I could find some more silver. No such luck, but I did find a bunch of clad coins, a neat button and some wheat pennies (1951, 1910, 1919, 1949, 194?, 1918, 1944). I decided to leave there and go back to the site where I found the gold ring and the Genie. I worked that site again really slow and was uncovering coins that I had missed before, but still no gold or silver. I left there to go and work some curbs at another site and I'm glad that I did. I just finished working the grassy area next to the sidewalk and had just turned back to work the area next to the curb when I got a funky signal. I popped a fairly deep plug and checked the hole with my ProPointer and didn't get a signal. I checked the plug and nothing there either. I replaced the plug and stomped it in really good. By habit, I ran the coil over the spot again and got the same signal again, so I pulled the plug and started digging it out towards the curb where I found this beautiful 1941 Walking Liberty standing on edge right next to the back of the curb. Luck was with me again today. Same settings as usual (see picture below). The discrimination was set where a Gatorade Sports Foil Cap just discriminates out.

tabman

 

[Lightstryder]

Nice work Tabman, are you retired? I wish I could hunt as much as you do. Looks like you have a nice button in your trash pile there. You didn't mention that one. So how slow is slow to you? My definition of slow may be different than yours. Thanks for sharing.

 

[JB(MS)]

Nice find. I've found a lot of coins, including silver coins, in the grass strips between the sidewalks and curbs, including the 1858 seated half dollar in the photo that's 30 years older than the town where it was found. Lots of trash in the strips, but as your recent posts show they're well worth hunting.

 

[mudpuppy]

Hot Diggety Durn! Now thats a helluva find! Didja get that chain necklace checked out or what? I really need to know, I'm getting very much frustrated beach hunting and need to find some gold this weekend... Also, answer Lightstryder's question please...
Mud

 

[tabman]

Nice work Tabman, are you retired? I wish I could hunt as much as you do. Looks like you have a nice button in your trash pile there. You didn't mention that one. So how slow is slow to you? My definition of slow may be different than yours. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, I'm retired. I've shorten my detecting time down to around 3 hours or so a day and average going around 5 days a week. This Summer heat sucks!

How slow? That's a good question, because like you say your slow may be different from my slow. I need to ponder on that and get back with you.

At any rate, 'my slow' is bringing targets alive for me. I pulled several coins out the hole today with trash and nails right next them.

I'd pop a plug and find a piece of trash or a nail and say damn, but when I rescan the hole I find what the Cibola is really sounding off on, a coin.

The button has 'Waterbury Button Company Conn' stamped on the back. I haven't done any research on it yet.

tabman

 

[tabman]

Nice find. I've found a lot of coins, including silver coins, in the grass strips between the sidewalks and curbs, including the 1858 seated half dollar in the photo that's 30 years older than the town where it was found. Lots of trash in the strips, but as your recent posts show they're well worth hunting.

You got that right! Especially, if there's parking on the street and car doors open onto the grassy area. Lots of jewelry is lost at those kind of locations.

When I see a spot like that, I'm on it like a duck on a June Bug that just hit the water.

tabman

 

[Rainyday101]

Great job Tabman! If the weather holds out this weekend I have my eye on some curbs near a really old park.

 

[Hombre]

n/t

 

[square_nail]

Wow! What a beautiful coin!

 

[kaolinwasher]

that an old square curve. thats an amazing find, they are digging up those curves over by me but I can't get to it piles of dirt sitting their , oh me O my

 

[hatpin]

How did you clean the half?

I cant take the heat either. My detecting this summer will be short. I am going to get a gatorade thingy and emulate you. Spending to much time digging tiny bits of foil and cans in this heat.

 

[tabman]

How did you clean the half?

I cant take the heat either. My detecting this summer will be short. I am going to get a gatorade thingy and emulate you. Spending to much time digging tiny bits of foil and cans in this heat.

I use a jeweler's cloth to shine it up after I bush it with a soft toothbrush in some soapy water. Maybe not a good ideal on a key date coin.

I put a drop of liquid dishwater detergent in my carry bottle to start the cleaning process in the field.

From my testing, you're not going to lose anything except the tiniest of gold rings if you set the discrimination point to where Gatorade Sports Foil Caps just discriminate out.

I'm talking about tiny baby sized ones that are not really worth finding for all the grief you have to go though digging those tiny pieces of foil. Maybe in a tot lot would be OK.

The smallest woman's wedding band with diamonds is still easy to detect at that setting.

tabman

 

[Lightstryder]

Tabman here is your Air Force button info:

Waterbury Button Co.

 

[tabman]

Tabman here is your Air Force button info:

Waterbury Button Co.

Thanks for looking it up.

tabman

 

[tabman]

Nice work Tabman, are you retired? I wish I could hunt as much as you do. Looks like you have a nice button in your trash pile there. You didn't mention that one. So how slow is slow to you? My definition of slow may be different than yours. Thanks for sharing.

Here ya go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPWO2Shb004

I just got the Tesoro 5 x 10 Widescan coil in the mail today. I couldn't concentrate much on sweep spend because of all the trash that's next to my driveway. I don't normally use the pinpoint button when pointing, because I can pinpoint just fine by angling the DD coil and x-ing the target. I like to put a small colored dot on the coil so I can concentrate on it. Watch dancing ball. The target is centered under it.

On another note this new Tesoro 10 inch widescan coil sure is a joy to swing. So far, I can't tell much or any difference between it and the Sharpshooter.

tabman

 

[Lightstryder]

Great video tab, thanks for sharing it. I hope you make more. I am very interested in that coil as well, let us know how you like it.

 

[jim tn]

Those big silvers gives the ole ticker a good charge. Nice find! HH jim tn

 

[tabman]

Those big silvers gives the ole ticker a good charge. Nice find! HH jim tn

Jim you got that right! You'd be the one to know with all the big silver coins that you have found.

We are getting pounded right now by the rain that I wished for. My Ginnie came through for us.

tabman

 

[jim tn]

Yeah, pounded big time. My pool is overflowing! Now, if it doesn't turn off so hot and bake the turf into concrete for a while, we will have some good digging days ahead for a while. Which, we normally don't have in July and Aug. Don't get wet! HH jim tn

 

[mudpuppy]

Great vid!

I learned something...so you X and drag a signal to try to determine the shape and depth by tone right? Since the tones dont change, I am imagining thats what you are doing? I can see this would take some practice for a multi tone hunter like me to master..i liked your coil work, have you ever tried tapping the coil vertically on a target to find its center? That method sure works swell for me.. Just dont know if it works with Tesoros and am curious...
Mud